, 1887-08-16
AN ASSASSINATION.
U. B. Selden, of ManviIIe, Is Mys-
teriOusIy Murdered.
Shot BY an Unknown Party While
Sitting at a Window.
An Attempt Made to Murder the
Dead Mans Wife.
No Authentic Clue to the Identity Of
No Authentic Clue TO the Identity of
the Criminal.

aoout u CLOCK yesterday AFTERNOON,
shortly after it became known that
Sheriff Sharpless had received the fol-
lowing telegram
LUsK, Wyo.. Aug. l5.-C. B. Selden
was shot and killed at Manville last
night, | have no idea who did it. He
was shot through a window. You had
better send Coroner Chafin at once.
JOHN OWENS, Deputy.
Sheriff Sharpless Immediately replied
directing the deputy to spare no effort
in the endeavor to apprehend and arrest
the assassins. Coroner Chafin will leave
for Manville at 6 o'clock this morning.
AT IL o'clock last night THE LEADER
received the following special dispatch
from its correspondent, who was at the
scene Of the murder a few hours after
its occurrence
LUsK, Wyo., Aug. I5.-At 10 o'clock
last evening a reached Lusk that
o. b. Selden, of the firm of Selden,
Shelter & Co., l~ocators and proprietors
of the TOWNSHIP of Manville, eight miles
west of Lusk, on the North Western
railway, had been mysteriously assassin
ated while sitting in his Office. Your
correspondent, in company with several
others, at once started for Manville, and
upon arriving discovered that the report
was well founded.
The murder was an assassination of the
most cruel and heartless character. The
brutality of the Mccoy and Trumble kill
ings cannot be classed with this crime,
which is as terrible and inhuman as it was
u~nprovoked.
Mr.. Selden, so his heartbroken wife
managed to relate between her sobs was
sitting in his office at $50 o'clock in the
evening when some unknown party fired
a shot at him through the window. The
ball entered Mr.. Selden's breast, and he
expired almost instantly. The dead
mans wife was at once at his side and he
died with his head in her arms.
As Mrs. Sheldon rose from the floor to
enter another room a shot was fired at
her. Providentially the cowardly assass-
ms bullet missed its intended victim, and
passing through a partition glanced up
ward to the ceiling and dropped to he
floor. 1t was fired from a As callbre re-
volver, evidently at a distance ofbetween
200 and 300 yards.
Excitement runs high in this commun-
ity, where the deceased had many
friends, and if the perpetrators of the
dastardly crime are captured they will
undoubtedly be lynched. Several parties
have already been organized and are
securing the country in the hope Of dis
covering the assassin, but with slight
prospects of success, however.
Mr.. Selden is 60 years old. For the
past thirty years he was n of the fore
most citizens of Omaha, and for a long
time a director of the Omaha CONNER
cial Bank. He is reputed to be worth in
the nelghborhood Of 5000, 900. Mr.. Sci
den settled in Manville about a year ago.
After an inquest is held the remains will
be shipped to Omaha.
Shelter, Selden & Co. occupied the
only house in Manville, which is simply a
water tank station. Mr.. Selden was en-
terprising and wide.awake, and seemed
determined to build a city on the townsite.
With this end 10 view he caused thou
sands of circulars to be printed and scat
tered broadcast throughout the country
offering inducements to settlers and stat
ing among other things that a large num-
Der of mechanics could find steady en-
ployment there at lucrative wages. Sew
eral bricklayers and a few carpenters Wis
tied the place, and finding but a single
house there departed in disgust, threat
ening to become reyengedfo their trouble
and loss Of time and money
On another occasion a Lusk hotel
keeper was induced to start a branch at
Manville. He erected a large two story
building but failed to secure a single
guest, and consequently ceased to con-
duct the business. Upon returning to
Lusk he branded Shaffer, Sheldon & Co.
frauds, and declared that he had been in
duced to invest in the prospective settle
ment upon false representations.
Such incidents as this did not tend to
popularize the TOWNSHIP company in this
locality, but they nevertheless continued
to boom Manville; and as they paid all
bills promptly and spent money quite
freely, they made friends Of nearly all
with whom they came in contact.
A later telegram states that it is now
rumored that a man with whom Selden
had extensive dealings in the real estate
business and who recently visited Man
vile and left suddenly is suspected of the
assassination. But little credence is given
the report, however.
Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the stock holders